Torill Kove
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Torill Kove (born 1958) is a Norwegian-Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film The Danish Poet, co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada
Born in Hamar, Norway, Kove has lived in Montreal, Quebec since 1982, when she moved there to continue academic studies in urban planning at Concordia University, where she changed her major to animation. Her first academy Award nomination was for My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (2000), inspired by the story of her own grandmother who actually ironed the shirts for Norway's King Haakon VII for many years.
In addition to directing several animated shorts, she has also illustrated several children's books.
